<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 7:01 AM, Christopher Denter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dennda@the-space-station.com">dennda@the-space-station.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hey,<br>
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I've been trying to install both, vtk5 and vtk-devel through MacPorts on Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard but without success.<br>
Both attempts fail with some compilation/linking error and I don't exactly know what to do. (Especially since I'm new to OSX and are more used to apt-like package managers.)<br>
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Installing vtk5 gives me: <a href="http://paste.pocoo.org/show/145645/" target="_blank">http://paste.pocoo.org/show/145645/</a><br>
For vtk-devel it is: <a href="http://paste.pocoo.org/show/145644/" target="_blank">http://paste.pocoo.org/show/145644/</a><br>
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By the way: I will need the python bindings. Are they included if I install vtk as I tried above?<br>
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Regards,<br>
Christopher<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br>Hi Christopher,<br><br>It's best to report these bugs on the MacPorts track system.<br><br>I maintain the vtk-devel port, but I've not yet upgraded to 10.6, for fear of being inoperable for a while. When they get to about 10.6.4 I might feel more comfortable with the upgrade process ;-) If I come across a serious restriction in using 10.5, I might have to bight the bullet, but so far things are going well enough.<br>
<br>Anyhow, the <b>+huge</b> variant provides a lot of things that you may not need. The <b>huge</b> variant is a <i>convenience</i> that simply requires other variants (some of those variants are also convenience variants that require, in turn, several basic variants). Take a look at:<br>
<b>port variants vtk-devel</b><br><br>The build error in your paste board is related to a build for a dependency on mpich2, which is required by the <b>mpi</b> variant.<br><br>Check what you need in the way of extra features (the +<variant> is enabled by default). I believe the default variant does install on 10.6.x. Also see:<br>
<a href="http://trac.macports.org/wiki/SnowLeopardProblems">http://trac.macports.org/wiki/SnowLeopardProblems</a><br><br>I hope this helps,<br>Darren<br></div></div><br>